In some of the following raising accounts, the person remained weak or ill, requiring further medical attention; whether weakness or sickness remained in any biblical raisings we cannot be certain, but it is possible in some of them (e.g., 2 Kgs 4:37; Mark 5:42–43; Acts 20:10–12). The primary issue for the biblical comparisons is what is explicit in most of those passages: someone dead, insofar as any observers present could detect, returned to life.
